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John Muir
Age: 76 †
Born: 1838
Born: April 21
Died: 1914
Died: December 24
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No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you.
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Every atom in creation may be said to be acquainted with and married to every other, but with universal union there is a division sufficient in degree for the purposes of the most intense individuality.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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The water in music the oar forsakes. The air in music the wing forsakes. All things in move in music and write it. The mouse, lizard, and grasshopper sing together on the Turlock sands, sing with the morning stars.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.
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One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Strange the faithless fuss made about taking a walk in the safest and pleasantest of all places, a wilderness.
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Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.
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My meals were easily made, for they were all alike and simple, only a cupful of tea and bread.
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The most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wilderness.
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The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men.
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To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others
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Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
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The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over. The highest peaks burned like islands in a sea of liquid shade. Then the lower peaks and spires caught the glow, and long lances of light, streaming through many a notch and pass, fell thick on the frozen meadows.
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